Product sheet - KISTERS AG

WISKI
WAtER ResourceS management
The Water Management Information System
WISKI – your complete hydrological workstation.
HYDROLOGICAL MEASURING NETWORKS | METEOROLOGY |
GROUNDWATER | FLOODING | WATER QUALITY | URBAN HYDROLOGY
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment rarely
sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci | Artist and
inventor, visionary and engineer

Double hulled ship
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo Bridge, equal
self-bearing wooden parts
Intelligent - Flexible - Future-proof.
The water industry relies on WISKI.
Water - a life-long passion.
Everyday operations at public authorities
and private companies demonstrate time
and again what really matters when it
comes to water industry software: mass
data capabilities, performance and efficiency
of use must be perfectly combined
with one another in order to guarantee
reliability and realise full automation
potential. These challenges can only be
met through the best hydrological and IT
knowledge and intensive practical experience
– our core competency for over
20 years.
WISKI passes this technological advantage
on to our customers. But we deliver
more than precisely tailored solutions.
Together with our customers, we strive
for long term collaborations and partnerships
built on trust in order to drive the
continued development of our products
based on immediate needs; for enduring
state-of-the-art quality and investment
security. Over 250 KISTERS experts have
guided projects of all sizes to success together
with their customers, and in doing
so delivered pioneering technologies and
earned outstanding references.
“Pioneering technologies” – the WISKI
core includes technologies provided
by the unique time series management
server KiTSM from the KISTERS KiSUITE.
300 customers around the world make
KISTERS the all-round partner for highly
specialised data management when working
with water as a natural resource.
More than any other element, da Vinci
studied water for his whole life, drawing
and writing, tirelessly and passionately.
The first documented and self-dated (1473)
drawing is a river landscape. He first
developed a correct understanding of the
hydrological cycle based on observation.
In his later years, when he rarely painted,
he painted the series „Diluvi“, horrorific
visions of unbridled floods that seize
everything in their path.
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TSM inside. - Added value for
every WISKI customer.
The management of water as a natural resource
is one of the central challenges of our generation,
and how we act today has consequences
for all future generations. System states and
changes must be traceable, and decisions must
be based on facts for future verifiability. Our
starting point is to transfer the natural world
and its dynamics into a world of data points
which can be recalled, transferred, validated
and stored in periodic intervals. These points
reflect system states, and form the basis for
analyses and forecasts. The technology is called
Time Series Management (TSM), and it provides
the backbone of key services for water industry
data processing.
We have succeeded in combining interdisciplinary
demands on time series processing with
regard to
Mass data capabilities
Scalability
Modular design
Flexibility to work in diverse specialist areas
High level of automation
Reliability, security
Integration potential
Broad platform independance
Redundancy, resilience
in the KISTERS KiSUITE TSM System. KiTSM
covers all these demands and, as a shared coremodule
for all software solutions requiring time
series services, additionally guarantees that the
particular demands of the respective application
with regards to system performance, time
series models, processing models, interfaces,
etc. can be met through simple configuration
options. Labour intensive project-specific
solutions are no longer an issue. The KiTSM of
the future will evolve according to the growing
needs of its diverse fields of application, so
that all users profit from its development.
Naturally, customer-specific solution requirements
extend above and beyond time series
management. KISTERS has chosen a component
software path for WISKI in order to be able to
offer a flexible and powerful comprehensive
solution for all task-specific application scenarios,
ranging from the responsibility-bearing
public authorities to private companies.
Learn more about the WISKI basic functions.
Because of our flexible solution concept, they
are expandable by special software modules
for more demanding applications at any time.
Measuring network management
Manage your measuring network with WISKI!
The configurable hierarchical data model means
even complex hydrological networks can be
represented with clarity and ease. Measuring
network display can be modified to suit
individual requirements by simply defining
individual views and attributes.
Data and time series
WISKI is at home with the diversity of your
data and opens the door to a flexible range of
applications. Instantaneous and mean values,
non-equidistant and rasterised, interpolatable
or not – terms such as these are our bread and
butter. Data validation and correction is carried
out comfortably using graphs and tables, and
aggregations and evaluations take place automatically
based on the current data stock.
Calculations and evaluations
Our agents constitute powerful and adjustable
algorithms for data calculation and analysis.
Create and register specific automatic calculations,
data validations and corrections with
WISKI. Analyse the data using statistical
methods and create statistics, data exports and
reports as necessary.
User management
Protect your data and the information you
added! The WISKI User Administration Concept
allows you to securely control data access
through flexible and highly configurable roles
and rights. External access is also subject to
your full control. WISKI can be easily integrated
into your existing LDAP system.
The WISKI Explorer
The WISKI Explorer facilitates simple navigation
through individual data structures and definitions
of your own data trees. You can access
graphs, tables, reports and evaluations directly,
Hydrological measuring networks
Process heterogeneous measuring
networks (gauge, ultrasonic, back-up
systems)
Manufacturer-independent parallel data
polling
Flow measurement and rating curves
Meteorology
Management of all relevant parameters
(e.g. precipitation, air pressure/temperature/humidity,
wind, evaporation)
Rainstorm evaluation
Spatial interpolation and areal precipitation
Groundwater
Management of all relevant parameters
(e.g. dip measurement, absolute/relative
water level, flow capacities/rates)
Compare measuring data with surface
water and precipitation
Geohydrological data

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WAtER ResourceS management
key lists and meta data management are completely
integrated, and external data sources
such as websites can be tied in directly.
Reporting
Individualised and customer-specific reports
are no problem for WISKI. A range of standard
reports can be generated immediately. Modifications
and custom reports can be created
quickly and easily using the straightforward
KiBasic scripting language.
Data transfer and telemetry
WISKI provides comprehensive import and
export functionality for time series/recorded
value data and meta data. All time series data
imports can take place on a continuous and
automatic basis or also manually. Our SODA
telemetry system, consisting of special hardware
and software for communication tasks, is
the ideal platform for remote data transfer.
Data Quality Code System
Data is more than just data. The WISKI Quality
Code System assists you to turn data into
information. Manage your data quality with
a maximum of 255 definable quality flags,
and an unlimited amount of standard remarks
and comments. With the “Quality Slider” you
can exclude any unqualified data from your
calculations.
Flow measurement/rating curves
A local measurement requires global experience.
BIBER extends WISKI by adding functions
to record and evaluate flow measurements.
Use one application to work on regular
and irregular cross-sections with current meter,
sensor and tracer data. SKED, the KISTERS
rating curve editor, offers a diverse range
of rating curve types and analysis methods.
BIBER and SKED fulfil international standards
(e.g. ISO, USGS, British and German Standards).
Complex tasks according to the stage-fall
method, discharge hysteresis, USGS stage/date
shifts or various backwater methods can be
solved easily with BIBER and SKED.
WISKI Web
Share your information using WISKI Web!
Three clicks at the most to access maps, time
series graphs and tables, meta data, data exports
and reports – WISKI Web publishes your
data the way you want, optionally including
flood information and alarms. Different solutions
for intranets, closed user groups and the
general public are available.
Consulting & Service
The WISKI-Team with experts in water management
and software development acts in
close partnership with the customers. The
Team will serve you during the whole lifecycle
of your particular WISKI-solution. Right from
the start with intensive consulting: Together
with you we easily tailor your made-to-measure
solution, just by selecting and configuring
the prefabricated WISKI-modules. Trainings
and manuals specific to your organisation,
24 hour internet support and a telephone
hotline are available to help out with any
issue in your operational business. With our
setscrews ‘component software‘, ‘scalability‘
and ‘configuration‘ we have pioneered your
WISKI for the constant state of change. An
additional bonus: WISKI user conferences,
featuring personal exchanges with specialists
from the water industry in addition to lectures
and workshops.
Flooding
Information and alarm management
Water quality
EU water framework directive
Further fields of application
Flow measurement
Automatic measuring network
Import sampling point data from Excel
Rating curves
monitoring
and LIMS
Reservoirs
Notification templates
Threshold and comparison lists
Urban hydrology
Various media
(email, fax, telephone, SMS, GSM)
Graphical presentation of quality data
for the general public
River catchment management
Your field of authority
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WAtER ResourceS management
WISKI – the universal data
management system for all
water industry tasks
Does your daily work involve managing
measuring networks, data capture or evaluation?
Do you work with hydrological measuring
networks or in the fields of meteorology,
groundwater monitoring, flood forecasting and
alarming, water quality control, urban hydrology,
reservoir operation or dam safety? WISKI
can do much more than just support you in
your work. In every field of application, unique
WISKI technology converts the complexity of
hydrological data and tasks into pure efficiency:
your workload will fall and quality will rise.
Data capture, processing and archiving – all in
one program! The powerful KiTSM time series
engine powers all desirable data processing
operations in WISKI: automatic plausibility
checks and corrections, aggregations, analyses,
and forecasts. It forms the processing module
of WISKI, uniting all functional logic in a single
component. WISKI is capable of rapidly creating
plainly understandable and directly useful
results in clear graphs, tables and appropriately
formatted reports. Particularly careful
thought has gone into the user interface for
the WISKI presentation module. Time series
and meta data are maintained securely in
a central database, managed by the WISKI
persistency module. Data access from remote
workstations is subject to user management
control, safety guaranteed.
The advantages WISKI can offer are clear:
a high-performance data management system
with broad application flexibility and unlimited
scalability combined with security and reliability,
state-of-the-art technology and a future
proof design. And not to forget the competent
and professional advice of our experts from
the water industry and software development
fields who can ensure your system design,
implementation, project management, training,
consulting, helpdesk and support continue
to run smoothly. Welcome to the WISKI community!
the data
the processing
handled with ease
Data loggers and sensors
Water level, flow, precipitation, etc.
Telemetry
Telephone, mobile, satellite, internet, etc.
External data sources
Control systems, GIS, databases, internet
File import
Flow measurement devices
Current meters, sensors, ADCP
Manual capture
PDAs and handhelds, web interfaces
Historical data
Lists, archives, files, gauge charts
Reports, lists, yearbooks
Data forwarding and export
Clear data display and processing in
graphs and tables
Data validation and quality management
Alarm management
Statistics, measurement values and trend
analyses
Internet communication
public and private
River catchment management

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WAtER ResourceS management
We are really impressed with the
WISKI database package from KISTERS.
John Crawford P.E., Section Head Energy Operations Planning
Manitoba Hydro, Canada
We have found Kisters staff we have worked with helpful,
often providing constructive and sometime innovative ideas
to resolve issues.
Simon Wood, Water Resources Measurement Team of the Environment Agency of England and Wales
Technical WISKI Advisor for over 300 users using data from 43.000 stations
Superior support when you need it!
Peter Hörter, Director of Hydrology at the South-West Waterways and Shipping Directorate of the Federal
Institute of Hydrology and the Waterways and Shipping Administration, Mainz, Germany
WISKI user for over 20 years
More information: www.wiski.eu
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